Japan detects another hog cholera infection
Story Date: 11/19/2018

 

Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 11/18/18

Japan detected another case of hog cholera virus infection on Friday at a park in central Japan after the country’s first case in decades was reported in September at a nearby pig farm.The Gifu prefectural government culled all 21 pigs kept at the Chikusan (livestock) center park after confirming earlier in the morning through tests that two of them were infected with what is also known as swine fever. The virus affects only pigs and wild boars with almost a 100 percent fatality rate.

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